A Hitchiker’s Guide to Open Science at ARNA
Why should I care? Examples
I can reuse and adapt this figure:
Or I can re-use curated, high-quality data from a far-away university to make my own plots
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Archiving on a pre-print repository
Free and with good visibility for well-known repositories (BioRχiv, ChemRxiv)
- Indexed in e.g. Google Scholar, Europe PMC
- Has a DOI, citable
Supported by many publishers
Possible to revise the manuscript and thus to upload accepted manuscript
- See Google Scholar
Possible to link final paper to preprint
Authors retain copyright
Authors establish precedence
Choosing a license
The license impacts what people can do with your work, e.g.
CC BY: Reusers can distribute
if attribution given
remixed, adapted, built upon
including for commercial use
CC BY-NC-ND: Reusers can copy and distribute the work
if attribution given
in unadapted form only
for non-commercial use only
The license impacts the article processing charges (APCs)
Archiving after publication
The go-to repository in France is HAL
Possibility to link Orcid, Google Scholar, etc.
Somewhat redundant local initiative @UBx: OSKAR
For PhD thesis: theses.fr
Disclaimer
Publishers may require the addition of disclaimers on top of accepted/published manuscript depositions e.g. ACS:
You should:
Refer to your funding mandate: it may have specific requirements regarding archiving
Consider the publisher’s policy: permissions can vary
Determine whether you can use the publisher’s or the author accepted version (AAM)
I publish, what are my rights? 🇫🇷
Consult the guide from Ouvrir la Science !
The opinion of Lund’s University Faculty of Law
When it comes to parallel publishing/self-archiving, it is difficult to make a general statement about what is permitted or not as it varies from one publisher to another and between different types of publications, and policies are frequently updated. Even if you retain the copyright to your text, you do not automatically have the copyright to the publisher’s PDF version. Publishing houses have different policies on this, more or less official.
An important question to consider is whether you want to use the publisher’s PDF version or a so-called author’s version, the last approved and corrected manuscript version before the publisher adds their journal layout. Many publishers allow the author’s version to be used without special permission and some allow the PDF version to be used if permission is requested, even though possible contracts or official policies may state otherwise.
Recommendation 1: Archive in an open repository
The 2016 Digital Republic Act [Légifrance 🇫🇷] grants authors the right to deposit the AAM in an open archive
Researchers are required to systematically deposit all new scientific publications in full text in the national open archive HAL
AAMs must be deposited immediately after acceptance for publication
The use of ORCID and idHAL identifiers is highly recommended to prevent any ambiguity in author identification and to facilitate deposits
Articles deposited on HAL and mentioned in researchers’ files will serve as the basis for evaluating their output
The evaluation of research structures will be based on the same principle, with the HCERES relying on collections structured in HAL (teams, units)